-- 2020-09-03 14:25:52
Myanmar has imposed mandatory quarantine and coronavirus tests for visitors to its capital city after the country reported dozens more infections on Wednesday and leader Aung San Suu Kyi warned of a "...
-- 2020-09-03 12:52:15
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 3,853,406, as the death toll mounted to 67,376 on Thursday, showed the latest data released by the federal health ministry. As many as 83,883 new cases and 1,043 deaths...
-- 2020-09-03 11:07:17
The confirmed coronavirus cases across the world neared 26 million on Thursday morning, according to the latest tally provided by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The JHU data shows a total of 25,...
-- 2020-09-02 22:05:37
COVID-19 infections in Europe are back to levels seen in March when the outbreak began its peak phase there, the head of the European Union’s public health agency said on Wednesday, noting howev...
-- 2020-09-02 21:34:36
A Saudi court has sentenced seven Islamic State militants to death over a 2014 shooting attack that killed eight Shia Muslims near the eastern city of al-Ahsa, state television reported on Wednesday,...
FE Online Report 2020-09-02 20:06:46
The 5th BIMSTEC Summit, preceded by the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting, is proposed to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the first half of January 2021 subject to the improved COVID situation. This...
-- 2020-09-02 17:28:55
The family of Paul Rusesabagina - hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide - has demanded that authorities in Kigali charge him in an international court after his sudden detent...
-- 2020-09-02 17:17:40
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said without harnessing the energy, tech savvy and optimism of young people, the world has no hope of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or...
-- 2020-09-02 17:13:29
Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater...
Reuters 2020-09-02 15:44:15
China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected a US report that Beijing was expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that China is expected to at leas...
Reuters 2020-09-02 14:56:51
The Afghan government released nearly 200 Taliban prisoners to spur the start of long-delayed peace negotiations, senior Afghan officials said on Wednesday. The fresh releases are from a group of 400...
FE Online Report 2020-09-02 13:18:34
The United Kingdom will lead a global call to action to protect the world’s poorest people from coronavirus and the increasing threat of famine, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced...
AP 2020-09-02 12:33:11
The Trump administration said on Tuesday (local time) that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constra...
-- 2020-09-02 12:28:22
Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater...
Reuters 2020-09-02 12:06:38
“Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease,” a doctor said this to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover the raging coronavirus pandemi...
-- 2020-09-02 11:37:28
The death toll from Covid-19 reached 855,444 globally on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the number of confirmed cases sta...
Reuters 2020-09-02 10:04:58
Tens of thousands of loans worth billions of dollars may have been subject to fraud, waste and abuse in the $659 billion taxpayer-funded programme aimed at helping small US businesses survive the coro...
-- 2020-09-01 19:23:16
Sudan’s power-sharing government signed a peace agreement with key rebel groups on Monday, a step towards resolving deep-rooted conflicts from the long rule of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. Thr...
Reuters 2020-09-01 19:04:34
Malaysia on Tuesday said it would bar entry of long-term immigration pass holders from India, Indonesia and the Philippines from Sept 7, in a bid to curtail imported coronavirus cases amid a spate of...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-01 18:49:39
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Myanmar authorities to stop using criminal laws, website blocks, and licensing delays to severely restrict the two ethnic media outlets in Rakhine State. The in...
-- 2020-09-01 18:07:19
The United Arab Emirates has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel, Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sa...
-- 2020-09-01 17:25:19
Myanmar’s telecommunications ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered mobile operators to block a website run by activists investigating the military for spreading fake news, which the group said...
-- 2020-09-01 15:41:47
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization forecasts that the number of undernourished people will increase by up to 132 million in this year. Besides, the number of acutely malnourished children will...
-- 2020-08-31 23:08:27
India has announced a seven-day state mourning after the country’s former president Pranab Mukherjee died at a Delhi hospital on Monday. He was 84-years-old. “As a mark of respect to the...
-- 2020-08-31 19:16:38
Former president of India Pranab Mukherjee, who was under treatment at a hospital, died at 84. The elder statesman and one of most respected politicians of India had been in coma after a brain surger...
-- 2020-08-31 18:24:10
Czech Senate Speaker Milos Vystrcil will ‘pay a heavy price’ for making an official trip to Taiwan, the Chinese government’s top diplomat said on Monday, prompting Prague to summon C...
-- 2020-08-31 18:08:01
Top aides to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a historic first flight from Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates on Monday to finalise a pact marking open re...
Reuters 2020-08-31 15:56:41
When Michelle Alfaro left her office at the United Nations in Geneva on March 13, her job finding homes for the world’s most vulnerable refugees was under control. Four days later, the new coro...
-- 2020-08-31 15:25:03
Malaysia marked the 63rd anniversary of its independence on Monday, with a scaled back celebration due to the restrictive measures to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Malaysia's king Sult...
-- 2020-08-31 15:03:06
A landslide and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 41 people in Nepal and India in the past week, officials said on Monday, as the annual monsoon season enters its final stretch after c...
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